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'04 loss to the Ducks ... great team with Cujo in nets ... on top of that Federov left ...

'07 loss to the Ducks ... game 7, where they gave Datsyuk the tripping penalty if I remember right :evil:

'99 loss to the Avs ... 3 time champ dream got flushed ....

'95 loss to the Devs ... Anytime you lose in the finals it hurts ...

For a team that has had a lot of success we sure had our heart breaking moments. I mean, sure we had more success then any other NHL team but our heart breaks have been much bigger then other teams due to the success we've seen. Look at our fan base, we had one bad off-season and everyone is about to burn the city down!

Edited August 12, 2012 by KrazyGangsta

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games I don't want to see again? Game 7 between us and Ducks in 2009 that we won 4:3 thanks to Danny's goal. Emotions is the most important factor - we were leading 3:0 skating to the 3rd period and then Ryan-Getzlaf-Perry started to click. I hate games like that. I want us clearly winning or at worst case clearly loosing. That game I'm talking about is a win for us. We almost found a way to loose.

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The worst one was 2009, by far. A game seven loss in the finals has to hurt more than anything. That and the fact that they paraded the cup around the Joe. What made it brutal for me was that as I was watching, I actually believed we were going to tie it up until the last second, even on Lidstrom's last shot. I was so sure it was going in. Then the other team started celebrating and the fall-out and realization of what happened was traumatic.

Haha, I'd post the video of that last shot but I don't have the heart to go looking for it.

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The worst one was 2009, by far. A game seven loss in the finals has to hurt more than anything. That and the fact that they paraded the cup around the Joe. What made it brutal for me was that as I was watching, I actually believed we were going to tie it up until the last second, even on Lidstrom's last shot. I was so sure it was going in. Then the other team started celebrating and the fall-out and realization of what happened was traumatic.

Haha, I'd post the video of that last shot but I don't have the heart to go looking for it.

as soon as i saw that the lidstrom shot didn't go in, i turned the tv off. couldn't bring myself to watch crosby parading the cup around. i still haven't watched anything from that series to this day

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i get sick to my stomach watching any series that the wings lose but the 09 finals was beyond brutal. blowing a 2-0 and 3-2 series lead and losing the cup at home?

Thing is, we actually didn't deserve to be 2-0 and 3-2 up. The only game we outplayed them the entire series was Game 5. The entire series we were so banged up we were just clinging on by our fingernails through sheer willpower

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I did think we overachieved in 2009 as Datsyuk was injured throughout the entire playoffs; but even then we should have won the cup. Teams like the Canes and the Lightning overachieved and they went on to win game 7. I still can't believe our only scorer was Jonathan Ericsson that game.

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Thing is, we actually didn't deserve to be 2-0 and 3-2 up. The only game we outplayed them the entire series was Game 5. The entire series we were so banged up we were just clinging on by our fingernails through sheer willpower

agreed. osgood was our best player by far in that series.

if wings win the cup, osgood most likely gets the conn smythe, a 4th stanley cup and would most likely be a shoo in for the hall of fame

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01 Kings, 03 Ducks, and 06 Oilers were by far the most embarrassing, frustrating series to watch. 01 the team lacked any drive, they were absolutely awful in Game 5 at home. 03 Ducks was like watching someone beat their head into a wall over and over and over and over and over and over again. All Giguere had to do was stand there, the Wings were going to shoot right at him. They created that monster. And there was no excuse for 06.

09 Penguins, 07 Ducks, 96 & 99 Avalanche, 94 Sharks, and 87 & 88 Oilers hurt. 09, soooo close. 07, watching Lidstrom lay his stick out and deflect that puck over Hasek, bad mistake. 96, great regular season, fell short, 99, up 2-0 and fell apart. 94, losing to San Jose in their first playoff series ever (stinkin' Jamie Baker). 87 and 88, the odds were long, going up against the Oilers, but I was 11 and 12 years old, so it still hurt. And I hated the Oilers then!

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Avs hated them ever since they changed from the Nordiques. Penguins one stings a bit still. Devils sweeping us Scott Stevens smoking Kozlov, they owned us that series. Osgood blunder vs the Sharks.

All give me nightmares still

Ozzie made a rookie mistake, Essensa single-handedly lost that 94 series. Despite totally dominating game 5 it was tied 4-4 with less than a minute to go because of terrible goaltending from Essensa. A rookie Czech d-man (I forget his name now) took a shot from the point that a child could have saved but Essensa let in.and he lost the game for us despite the fact that it looked like an NHL team playing against kids

Osgood was good all series except for the blunder in game 7. Essensa lost the first game with terrible goaltending, they put in Ozzie and he won 2 in a row before losing. With the series tied 2-2, they put in Essensa again and he single-handedly lost the game. Os good won game 6 and then we lost game 7.

Irbe had one of the greatest goaltending performances ever in that series

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